Mansfield Town
v Wrexham

Tuesday 01 April 2008

 

Kick Off @ 19:45



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Field Mill


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Admission Prices:

North Stand: Adults £10, Seniors & Students £6, Under 16s £4

Mansfield have reduced admission prices for home & away supporters for this game.


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Clear skies with temperatures dropping to 6 degrees Celsius.

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Recent Encounters

Mar 07: Wrexham 1 Mansfield 1

Mar 07: Wrexham 0 Mansfield 0

Oct 06: Mansfield 3 Wrexham 0
Feb 06: Mansfield 2 Wrexham 2
Dec 05: Wrexham 4 Mansfield 1

Last Five League Games

Wrexham:

Barnet (a) 2-3

Dag & Red (h) 0-0

Brentford (a) 0-2

Bury (h) 2-1

Wycombe (a) 1-2

Overall Form Position: 18th

Away Form Position: 16th

Mansfield:

Notts County (a) 0-0

Bury (a) 0-2

Grimsby (h) 1-2

Bradford (a) 2-1

Hereford (h) 0-1

Overall Form Position: 22nd

Home Form Position: 24th

League Record

  Us Them
Played 38 39
Won 8 9
Drawn 9 7
Lost 22 23
For 29 40
Against 53 59
GD -24 -19
Points 33 34
Position 24 23

Betting Odds

Wrexham Draw Mansfield
2/1 23/10 6/5

League Two Fixtures

Barnet v Darlington
Mansfield v Wrexham
Rochdale v Bradford

Match Preview

Wrexham travel to second-bottom Mansfield for what is a 'must win' game for both teams.

We have dropped one point adrift of the Stags following the results on the weekend and the winner of this match will have an outside chance of staying up, but the loser will more or less be making plans for the Conference next season.

Both teams want to avoid the 1-1 draw between the two sides at the Racecourse at the beginning of March, as this will make chances of survival unlikely for both teams.

Like us, Mansfield have been struggling at the wrong end of the table for the majority of the season and have only climbed out of the relegation zone for one game out of the last twenty-three.

Home has not been sweet for the Stags this season with only two wins at field Mill compared with five on the road but the Stags have only collected three points once from their last nine games.

Mansfield have lost nine of their last ten games at Field Mill in the league, their last win at home coming against league leaders Peterborough back on Boxing Day, and the only point since then has been a 1-1 draw against Bury.

Mansfield parted company with manager Billy Dearden last month with the 4-0 defeat at home to Rochdale proving to be the final straw.

His assistant, Paul Holland, was named caretaker manager following Dearden's departure and was given the job on a permanent basis last week despite not winning any games since taking charge.

Holland has made use of the loan market last week with former Red Neil Wainwright arriving from Darlington and experienced midfielder Kevin Horlock from Scunthorpe until the end of the season.

Top scorer for Mansfield is Michael Boulding with an impressive 21 goals so far in all competitions for a team struggling in the relegation zone.

Boulding's goals has kept the Stags alive this season, with his nearest rivals for the top goal scorer award seventeen goals behind with four this season.

Recent Encounters:

The match at the Racecourse a month ago ended in a 1-1 draw with Michael Boulding's deflected opener for the Stags cancelled out by a free kick from Michael Proctor.

The same match at the Racecourse last season also ended up in a draw and Wrexham's fans hope history does not repeat on Tuesday night, as we fell to a heavy 3-0 defeat at Field Mill last time out.

Our last victory over Mansfield was back in December 2005 but you have to go back to 1984 our last win at Field Mill. We did beat the Stags 1-0 in the League Cup in 2001 but this game was played at Notts County's Meadow Lane.

The overall head-to-head sees Mansfield ahead on twenty-four wins to our twenty-two and there have been seventeen draws in the sixty-three league matches between the two sides.

Team News:

Initial team news suggests that Neil Roberts will be unavailable for this game but Danny Sonner is expected to return.

Both players missed the defeat to Barnet on the weekend with Sonner expected to have recovered from his Achilles injury but Roberts, who missed the game on the weekend after picking up a virus, is now a doubt following a training ground injury.

Mansfield have no fresh injury worries and Paul Holland has the same squad from the weekend to choose from.

The only absentee for the Stags is midfielder Lee Bell who is expected to be out for the season after damaging his medial knee ligaments.